India: An Indian farmer walks through a mustard field in Baran village near Patiala on February 25, 2014. Over 70 percent of Indians depend on agricultural incomes and about 65 percent of India's farms depend on rains that fall between June and September.

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El Salvador: A fisherman prepares for a fishing trip in La Libertad, 35 km south of San Salvador, El Salvador on February 23, 2014. The fishing industry has grown some 45% in the last 15 years in Central America.

Virginia: In this photo taken on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014, farmer Mike Cullipher, background, walks by a truck as kale, damaged from the cold winter, rest in a field at his farm in Virginia Beach, Va. Kale, a hearty, cold-weather crop, as well as collard greens, has taken a beating from the cold winter weather.

Australia: Cattle walk near a dry river bed on a farm near Port Hedland, about 1,600 km (960 miles) north of Perth, in this file picture taken May 26, 2008. A scorching drought has forced farmers to cull cows as pastures wither, driving processors to work flat out and likely pushing beef shipments in the world's third-biggest exporter beyond record levels already touted.

Photo: Tim Wimborne, Reuters

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California: Workers prune vines at the Russell Family Vineyard near Paso Robles, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014. Nearly 92 percent of California, including the Paso Robles winemaking region and parts of the Napa Valley, were experiencing severe, extreme or exceptional drought as of Feb. 11, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, a federal website.

Photo: David Paul Morris, Bloomberg

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France: An employee inspects mealworms and mealworm beetles at the Micronutris plant in Saint Orens de Gameville, southwestern France, February 24, 2014. According to Micronutris, the company is the only firm in Europe that raises insects for human consumption. The insects are sold live, dehydrated or rendered into a flour-like powder for use in pastries.

New Jersey: Passover matzo moves along a cooling conveyor after it comes out of an oven at the Manischewitz Co. factory in Newark, New Jersey, U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014. Manischewitz is the nation's largest manufacturer of processed kosher food products.

Egypt: A boy distributes breads with meat and cheese to worshippers after El Ishaa prayers at the Al-Hussein mosque, during celebration day of "Moulid Al-Hussein" the birthday of Prophet Mohammad's grandson Hussein in Cairo, February 25, 2014.

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Sudan: Inmates distribute the dinner, served in bowls, to be shared among prisoners at the central prison in Rumbek, Lakes state, South Sudan, on February 19, 2014. Independent for nearly three years as of mid-last December when South Sudan fell into wide-spread, deadly ethnic violence the shortlived peace is seen to be sacrificed at the altar of a corrupt albeit fledgling government. Influenced principally by the two largest ethnic groups, Dinka and Nuer respectively, also traditionally fierce rivals -- government efforts to contain simmering intercommunal resentment, led to rifts within the ruling SPLM, according to US special envoy to Sudan and South Sudan, Donald Booth.

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India: In this photograph taken on February 17, 2014, Indian customers buy mawa cakes and bread at the B. Merwan & Co. Irani cafe in Mumbai. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, hundreds of eateries known as Irani cafes sprouted up in Mumbai due to a wave of Persian immigration. One of the most famous of the remaining few is now set to close.

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Russia: Employees of a fast food chain prepare to serve free pancakes during their action to mark Maslenitsa, or Shrovetide, in central Moscow, on February 26, 2014. Maslenitsa is a week long traditional carnival of saying goodbye to the already passed winter in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.

Ukraine: A woman purchases a loaf of fresh bread from a kiosk in Kiev, Ukraine, on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2014.

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Egypt: People queue for subsidised bread at a bakery equipped with a smart card system in the Suez Canal city of Port Said, 170 km (106 miles) northeast of Cairo, February 24, 2014. A device resembling a credit card swiper is revolutionizing some of Egypt's politically explosive bread lines and may help achieve the impossible -- cutting crippling food import bills. Authorities who hope to avoid protests over subsidized loaves sold for the equivalent of one U.S. cent have turned to smart cards to try to manage the corrupt and wasteful bread supply chain that has been untouchable for decades. Picture taken February 24, 2014.

Massachusetts: In this Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014 photo, food technologist Tom Yang cuts a prototype pizza at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, in Natick, Mass. Pizza is in development to be used in individual field rations known as meal ready to eat, or MREs. It has been one of the most requested options for soldiers craving a slice of normalcy in the battlefield and disaster areas.

India: An Indian food vendor falls and spills his bowl of Chudwa while crossing the railway tracks in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014. Chudwa is a rice flakes mixture served with a blend of nuts and dried fruits.

Photo: Mahesh Kumar A., Associated Press

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California: Rotting pomegranates hang from a tree in an orchard on February 25, 2014 in Firebaugh, California. As the California drought continues and farmers struggle to water their crops, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation officials announced this past Friday that they will not be providing Central Valley farmers with any water from the federally run system of reservoirs and canals fed by mountain runoff.